Ed Seidel
Ed Seidel | |
|---|---|
| 28th President of the University of Wyoming | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Neil Theobald |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 21, 1957 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | College of William and Mary (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MS) Yale University (PhD) |
| Awards | Sidney Fernbach Award Gordon Bell Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Vincent Moncrief |
Edward Seidel (born August 21, 1957) is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1, 2020. He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System, as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.